Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, as the campaign entered its final week, most polls showed that the Conservatives' lead over Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor Party had dropped from 20% or more to less than 6%. At week's end yet another poll by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) indicated that the Tory margin had shrunk to a bare 3%; a 6% lead might translate into a majority of 30 seats or more, but the MORI sampling of voters suggested that this Thursday's election had become too close to call. Beyond that, other polls indicated that Callaghan...
Despite her middle-class manner and accent, Thatcher in fact is a grocer's daughter from a market town in Lincolnshire. Her campaign strategy was designed in part to impress working-class voters, especially women, that she shared their concern about prices and other gut economic issues. At a shopping mall in Halifax, she brandished in her right hand a shopping bag crammed full of groceries, while in her left hand she held a half-empty one. "The right hand," she trilled, "was what a pound would buy under the Tory government in 1974; the other is what...
...scandal started in 1958 when Distillers Co., a huge British conglomerate known best for selling Scotch and gin, heavily advertised and sold a dangerous tranquilizer, Thalidomide, without adequately testing its effect on pregnant women. Before Distillers finally pulled the drug off the market, in 1961, some 450 tragically deformed babies were born in England, with flippers instead of arms and legs, or no limbs...
...early as the mid-1980s, but the nation will be in increasing jeopardy anyway. The threat is not that some day soon there will be much too little oil, but that consumers will have to pay ever more extortionate prices to get it. Says Guido Brunner, the Common Market's energy commissioner: "We have to realize that the age of cheap energy has come to an end, not because of diminishing supplies but because of OPEC's production policies...
...editor of the Financial Mail as meaning that any applicant for a license to export assets more than 24 months old may be authorized to do so only in the form of South African bonds, treasury or parastal, or security rands, both of which the world market commonly discounts at 25 to 40 per cent. Since the most recent two or three years have seen many deficits and limited profits in U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa, it would seem that a sizable share of the proceeds of any sale of assets there would be dealt with by the South African...